Dr. Richard Wheeldon's Home Page

This page is used to provide information relating to the work I am involved with.
Please feel free to send me an e-mail
if you have any questions regarding anything here. Potential employers can take
a look at my (rather out-of-date) CV.
You might also want to take a look at
Philip Larkin's poem, I Remember, I Remember
or James E. Gunn's Kindergarten which have
been on my site for years now.

In December, I took up a job at ScanSafe -
part of Cisco and a provider of cloud-based security. Before that I worked for
two and a half years in the media arm of Reuters.

From 2004 to 2007 I worked for Geoquip developing
a Security Management system called GeoLog for controlling Perimeter Intrusion Detection
Systems (PIDS) and CCTV. A number of GeoLog screenshots
are available. Further information can also be found on
Geoquip's GeoLog page

In 2003, I completed a PhD in Computer Science at Birkbeck, under the supervision
of Mark Levene. My PhD work concentrated
on the concept of Hypertext Trails. The company which I previously worked for,
NavigationZone, used the algorithms developed by myself and others to assist web
navigation. Papers and posters describing this work can be found in the
publications page.
The thesis abstract and provisional table of table of contents can
be found here.

I spent many years using the Amiga, much of which was spending coding in
AMOS Basic. I learnt a great deal during that time, mainly on how not to
write programs. If you want to download any of these programs check out
the Amiga or
Amos pages.

Two utilities have been developed to help Java programmers as part of my PhD
work. AutoDoc shows hypertext trails through
Javadocs. AutoCode shows similar trails
through the source code of Java programs, where each trails represents a
thread of coupling (either Inheritance, Aggregation, Interface, Parameter or
Return Type). Using information derived from AutoCode,
Steve Counsell
and I showed the existence of power laws in Java code.

MALTED stands for Multimedia Authoring for Language Tutors and Educational
Developers. It was a project which I worked on for over a year, developing
the Assetbase server software. Widely used at the time by
UCL Language center,
the only original partner actively working with and developing MALTED are
the Spanish Ministry of Education (M.E.C.) who have made it available for
download.